Peter (Natick)

Peter most likely was among the company of 112 Native men, women, and children (some of the later abandoned by Phillip’s forces as they fled from the English) who surrendered to Plymouth Colony authorities in August 1675.  Having subsequently judged complicit in acting against the Colonies, most of them were sentenced to servitude.  Peter was sold out the colony to John Kingsley, a town selectman from Milton in Massachusetts Bay.  The following year, several of Peter’s relatives and kinsmen from Natick and Punkapoag petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for his release to be returned to Kingsley or to their own custody.  The Court’s response has not been located. 

Records of the Colony of New Plymouth 5: 173.  Additional sources for this biography come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.